July 13, 2013

Have you ever wondered about those students who are learning foreign languages on iTunes? There are over 600 free language learning collections on iTunes. People are using them. What do you know about these students?

Earlier this year, Fernando Rosell-Aguilar presented a paper at the e-Learning Symposium in Southampton University in the UK about the iTunes U language learner. The findings show that most iTunes U learners have quite a different profile compared to university learners: from their age and gender to their occupation and motivations for accessing iTunes U language resources.

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